flightychick:
Hmm, if you travel 100.000 miles/year at an average speed of say 400 miles/hour that'll be 250 hrs/year. Nothing to it. On my best I've had close to 500.000 kms (SAS/Star Alliance) + some One World miles + others in one year and I'm sure many have had much, much more.:)
Per

flightychick:

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"I am an experienced SLF (100.000 req.flyer miles/year , in economy)"

:eek: Are you some kind of Time Lord?? There are less than 9000 hours in a year!!!

Hmm, if you travel 100.000 miles/year at an average speed of say 400 miles/hour that'll be 250 hrs/year. Nothing to it. On my best I've had close to 500.000 kms (SAS/Star Alliance) + some One World miles + others in one year and I'm sure many have had much, much more.:)
Per
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I just mentioned the average mileage I collect in one year ( including bonus mileage) , nothing to be proud of, I wish it could get to a lot less, possibly tending to 0 miles flown per year :)

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So does this qualify as a "Thick Cabin Crew" comment or are you, flightychick, just a "Thick passenger"? :D

Here's a few that have made me chuckle over the years -

pax (pointing to airshow on main cabin screens and pushing his inseat TV controls while looking a little miffed) asks "can I please have the remote - I can't get the channel to change".

pax (business class) asks for the red wine bottle, looks at the label, notes the vintage and hands me back both the bottle and his glass "you can't serve me that - it's old".

pax (business class) gives me back his champagne and complains "there are too many bubbles in it".

Crew "Caviar Sir?" Pax, "oh yes, I love it. Give me everything, but none of that black stuff".

A colleague was in the cabin with tea and coffee pots in her hands when a passenger asked her for a pen. Without missing a beat my colleague replied "sure, hold these", and shoved both pots towards the suitably embarassed passenger.

But my favourite story would be my own inability to understand what the passenger was trying to tell me - just before I took my duty free cart into the cabin the PUR announced that Channel 5 was not working on the inflight entertainment system. On arrival in the back galley I had a passenger approach me repeating 'channel 5, channel 5'. I apologised and explained we were aware of the problem with the system, before I realised he infact wanted to buy a bottle of 'Chanel 5' from me!! Bless.

"Hmm, if you travel 100.000 miles/year at an average speed of say 400 miles/hour that'll be 250 hrs/year. "

...plus all the time spent queuing to get through security of course, so you can see how it adds up!

when offering orange juice after meal service, a pax asked me ' so are you doing juice AND squash?' my reply 'I thought juice and squash were the same thing?', duh!!!

Why are you putting this in the Thick Passenger comments thread? This is another "thick cabin crew" comment...

christep, totally agree. juice is juice (concentrate) and squash is squash (diluted with water). two totally different things lol

Why oh why do pax not lock the toilet - I certainly don't appreciate seeing old half naked people on a regular basis - is it that tricky to understand a door lock?

My favourite pax moment so far: I fly a route check flight where I am being checked, 3hrs 30 to Manchester. So bring on 2 hours technical and procedural grilling from 6am in the morning, followed by a raw data autopilot/autothrust off approach from 7000' to landing at rush hour at MAN in ****ty weather. All goes well, stop at gate. I feel tired but happy, and quite proud. Flight deck door is open, step in angry English female pax.

Angry pax: "That was the worst flight of my life!"

Me: "I'm sorry to hear that, why?" (Expecting some major problem, due to the sheer rage she was showing)

Angry pax: "There were passengers talking in a foreign language behind me all flight!"

Me: "Well you are flying Air ***** the flag carrier of ***** of which the main language isn't English"

Angry pax: "What is your name, I want to make a complaint"

Me: "That is fine, my name is FO xx please contact our customer services department, I can give you their address"

Angry pax: "You'll hear from my lawyer!!!"

I was rather bemused to say the least, tired and very bemused.

Premium Economy passenger at Virgin check-in demanding to be let into the Clubhouse because she was a Gold Card Holder - for BA!!

The nerve.

We had a pax complain that there was an infant in their cabin! :ugh:

Juice and squash, btw, not the same thing.

VSCSA we get that all the time! Or the alternative, I am goldcard holder with your airline let me in the lounge. When they are flying another carrier outside the same alliance.

I hope you don't do that to BA Gold Card holders! :eek:

Where I come from at least "squash" is a manufactured drink which contains lots of other stuff as well as fruit juice and water (and is generally more dilute than juice), "juice" is just that - preferably not reconstituted from concentrate but even if it is then it consists only of juice concentrate and water back at the original strength.
For example, Waitrose Orange Squash (http://www.ocado.com/webshop/getProd...ntainer=118070) contains wheat! (WTF is that all about?) And sulphur dioxide, and added sugar and artificial sweeteners, and is only 13.9% fruit. To me that is something very different from "orange juice".

You are right - squash often includes all sorts of horrible things.

However, if in Scotland the term 'juice' is used for almost any soft drink or more accurately 'pop'.

Thick passenger:
PAX (deboarding after a 13-hour flight from AMS to LAX): So, are you going to fly back now?
CC: :hmm:

Thick cabin crew:
Captain (pointing at a screen that shows: 0000.00 N): This shows we are passing the Equator at this very moment!
CC (after looking outside for a minute): Where is it? I can't see it?!?

Thick F/O (a.k.a. "me"):
Me (on a flight to Oslo): Ladies & gentlemen, I hope you enjoyed the flight and I wish you a pleasant stay in Stockholm.

<ping!>

Purser: Did you just say Stockholm?
Me: http://gathering.tweakers.net/global...ys/redface.gif
Purser: You know, that surely rattled a few pax! :}

xetroV;

I know that last one only too well. Went slightly further one day after a lot of earlies and a lot of sectors I turned to the P2 and with the PA mike still open said "where the bloody hell are we this time?" Very red faced at the forward door saying sorry and goodbye to the pax.

Sadly every one laughed except for one of the CC who reported me to the company, I had a short chat without coffee or biscuits in the Chief Pilot's office for that one!

Thankfully the airlines are now a distant and unlamented memory.

Mistakes happen, it sounds like it wasnt something you did on purpose - methinks that particular CC member needs to have the pole removed from their derriere :hmm:

sinala1;

Long time no hear. Hope all is going well. The CC member concerned forced the pole up a lot further when she became a pilot and then a training captain on A320's!!!

VH

maybe she wasnt busy removing the pole from her derriere but busy having her nose up someone elses derriere!!:mad: lick lick